Dear Marine Mammals Research and Conservation community, I am writing to share IUCN's Call for Applications from independent experts to serve on the IUCN's Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel (WGWAP). The Panel has provided independent scientific and technical advice and recommendations on ways to minimize impacts on western gray whales from oil and gas development offshore Russia's Sakhalin Island, just north of Japan, for the last 10 years. IUCN is now seeking to recruit between 6-10 experts to serve on the Panel for a 15-month period from 1 October 2015 to 31 December 2016. The expertise required ranges from general cetacean biology, population assessment and modelling to bio-acoustics and environmental monitoring. IUCN is also looking for expertise related to marine mammal response to disturbance and mitigation measures, especially but not exclusively with respect to oil and gas activities, as well as experience interpreting relevant Performance Standards of the International Finance Corporation / World Bank Group on environmental and social sustainability. The application form, along with some background information, details concerning the open positions, specific expertise requirements and the general TORs are available online via http://iucn.org/wgwap/?21582 or https://hrms.iucn.org/iresy/index.cfm?event=vac.showOpenList (see at the bottom of the list). Applications and requests for further information should be sent by email to anete.berzina@iucn.org<mailto:anete.berzina@iucn.org> no later than 20th August 2015. For more details on the WGWAP process, please see: http://www.iucn.orrg/wgwap. Please do feel free to share the Call for Applications further within your networks, as appropriate. Kind regards, Anete Anete Berzina Manager - Western Gray Whale / SEIC Project Global Marine & Polar Programme & Global Business & Biodiversity Programme IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) 28 rue Mauverney, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland Tel. +41 22 999 0703; Fax +41 22 999 0002; www.iucn.org<http://www.iucn.org/> [cid:image001.jpg@01CDB8EB.7E9742C0]<http://www.iucn.org/> [cid:image002.jpg@01CDB8EB.7E9742C0]<http://twitter.com/iucn> [cid:image003.jpg@01CDB8EB.7E9742C0] <http://www.facebook.com/iucn.org> [cid:image009.jpg@01D00AF8.4C6E5250]<http://50.iucnredlist.org/> SUPPORT THE IUCN RED LIST 50 CAMPAIGN [cid:image010.jpg@01D00AF8.4C6E5250]<https://50.iucnredlist.org/donate> 50.iucnredlist.org <http://50.iucnredlist.org/> ________________________________ This communication, together with any attachment, may contain confidential information and/or copyright material and is intended only for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, you received it by error and you are asked to please delete it and promptly notify us. Any review, copying, use, disclosure or distribution of any part of this communication, unless duly authorized by or on behalf of IUCN, is strictly forbidden.